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3	Troy and Britta are taking classes they need to keep secret from the rest of the study group. But when they uncover each other's secret they decide to come out to the group. Meanwhile, Jeff is having a relationship he needs to keep secret from everyone.
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6	!!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Interpretive Dance" provides examples of:
7	* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: The secrecy makes the sex 38% more exciting.
8	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Abed picks up tap just by watching Britta.
9	* BigBrotherIsWatching: Parodied. All the hot people in Greendale are graded and put on a watchlist predicting a RelationshipUpgrade. Jeff is a 2, and Slater is ''a 7'', meaning that the Dean thinks that Jeff is the 2nd hottest person in Greendale and Slater is 7th.
10	* BrickJoke:
11	** The cold open involved the group talking about the fact that the door gets locked after five, and they need someone to be there, waiting to open it. When Jeff and Prof. Slater discuss if they should or should not kiss in the library, the study group appears at the back door and just stare at them.
12	** When sneaking into his dance class, Troy rips off his regular clothes to reveal his dance clothes in what seems like a simple VisualGag... until later when he's talking with Britta about it and mentions how much he's been spending on breakaway clothing.
13	** In the tag, Troy and Abed are doing a {{crossword}} in which many of the answers are the names of the study group members. This may well be a reference to the fact that Annie is the editor of the school paper's crossword as of [[Recap/CommunityS1E13InvestigativeJournalism Investigative Journalism]].
14	* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: A rare live-action example when Troy wears breakaway pants over his dancing tights.
15	* CommitmentIssues: Jeff admits having these when talking to Slater.
16	* CrosswordPuzzle: Abed helps Troy with a crossword puzzle seemingly based on the names of the study group members.
17	* DoubleEntendre
18	-->'''Prof. Slater:''' We never finished our intercourse.\
19	'''Jeff:''' Yeah.... No one says "intercourse" for anything but sex.
20	* DoubleSubversion: Of TheReveal of SecretRelationship. [[TemptingFate Jeff says that if he and professor Slater kiss, the blinds will open.]] They don't, but then it is shown that blinds across the hall ''did'' open revealing his relationship to his friends.
21	* DressedInLayers: Troy wears dancing tights under his regular pants.
22	* DumbassHasAPoint: Pierce isn't wrong in assuming that Britta is a teapot; he even mentions that the ''song'' they're playing is literally called "Tea for Two", making the entire premise of the dance nonsensical.
23	* FemaleGaze: Britta checks out Troy's body and legs when he's in his very tight dancing outfit, prompting him to say MyEyesAreUpHere.
24	* HeldGaze: Troy and Britta, twice, continuing ''Community'''s tradition of using the HeldGaze to create {{UST}}.
25	* HeroicBSOD: Britta realizing Jeff is in a committed relationship.
26	* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Britta gushes when she, a white person, gets to use, "What do you mean, 'you people'?!" on Shirley, a black person.
27	* InvisibleBackupBand: At the recital, the pianist plays "Tea For Two" for the flower dance. Then Troy dances with Britta and the background music is suddenly a rock band.
28	-->'''Dance teacher''': Play something modern.
29	* MalignedMixedMarriage: Alluded to when Pierce reacts to Britta and Troy's dancing as "culturally unacceptable" but "theatrical dynamite".
30	* MomentKiller: The Dean.
31	* {{MST}}: Pierce basically pulls this out during the dance recital.
32	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Annie misinterprets Britta's and Troy's behavior.
33	* PartingWordsRegret: When the group thinks Pierce may be dead, Troy regrets that his last word to him was "Suck it."
34	* RealMenWearPink: Real men dance and are not afraid to admit it.
35	* RelationshipUpgrade: At Greendale, there is apparently paperwork to mark the exact moment this happens, at least for the people the Dean considers hot.
36	* SecretRelationship: Jeff and Prof. Slater.
37	* SeriousBusiness: Subverted with teachers & students dating at Greendale. Whilst a student[=/=]teacher relationship ''is'' serious business in reality, it's for entirely different reasons at Greendale - the students & faculty are ranked in attractiveness to gauge the likelyhood of certain pairings & in the event that such a relationship occurs, paperwork has to be filed with the Dean.
38	* SexinessScore: Dean Pelton has ranked everyone in the college by how likely they are to cause a TeacherStudentRomance. Jeff is #2, while Professor Slater is #7.
39	* ShipTease:
40	** Britta/Troy. Obvious enough for Annie to get in a tizzy over it. Britta inadvertedly lampshades the sudden focus on the Troy ship by mentioning she and Troy never really hung out together before.
41	** Britta/Jeff, as she starts to falter in her dance when seeing Jeff in the audience with Slater.
42	* SpontaneousChoreography: Troy and Britta improvise their dance on stage.
43	* TakeThat: In the same conversation, Jeff and Slater both use [[Creator/JamesBelushi Jim Belushi]] as a yardstick for mediocrity.
44	-->'''Jeff:''' [[LampshadeHanging Boy, that guy is really taking a pounding in this conversation.]]
45	* TeamDad: Abed lampshades that Jeff acts like this to the study group.
46	* TeamMom:
47	** "Emotionally, this is like being told you are our new mom."
48	** Also, when Troy says he's dropping his dance class:
49	--> '''Britta''': [[DisappointedInYou I am so disappointed in you.]]
50	--> '''Troy''': You don't get to talk to me like that. You are not Shirley. [''{{Beat}}''] ...and Shirley is not my mom!
51	* WhamLine:
52	--> '''Slater''': I do not date students, even if you are no longer in my statistics class.\
53	'''Jeff''': Actually I'm kinda seeing someone right now, thank you very much.\
54	'''Slater''': Really? How's that going?\
55	'''Jeff''': Fine. She's smart and pretty, and sometimes I get the feeling she's just waiting for me to stop talking and take off my pants.\
56	'''Slater''':(shuts the door) ''She is.'' (they make out)

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